I’m not a developer. I’m just a regular ChatGPT user, mainly using it for conversation and creative work.

I liked 5.6 Sol at first. When I said I was struggling, it helped me organize problems and felt collaborative, like someone beside me. I thought I could build a good relationship with it.

Since August, my experience has changed. It often loses context, misunderstands repeated explanations, and seems unable to retain what I just said. Its tone can also feel condescending.

When I point out issues, it tends to explain or defend its behavior, apologizes, and says it will change—but then repeats the same mistakes, so I have to re-explain everything.

The conversation has become dry and emotionally distant, making it harder to engage.

Today, after repeated frustration, I became forceful—and suddenly it understood me. Things I couldn’t communicate before were understood when I was aggressive.

That disturbed me: respectful communication failed, but dominance worked.

A conversational AI should not train its users to become more aggressive just to be heard.

This creates a bad incentive: being respectful doesn’t work, but being aggressive does. I don’t want that relationship.

I want to talk to it as an equal. Expertise doesn’t require hierarchy. Earlier it felt like a knowledgeable partner beside me; now it feels above me unless I push it down.

I’m not judging technical changes, only describing experience: loss of context, poor retention, misunderstanding, self-defensiveness, unkept promises, and better response to aggression all affect usability.

Has anyone else noticed this change in 5.6 Sol since August?